The Sensemakers Club is a community-powered education space where curious people come to grow without performing or pretending to have it all figured out.
Are you a sensemaker?
A sensemaker is someone who helps people understand complex, messy, or ambiguous situations and turn that understanding into better decisions and action.
It’s not a job title.
It’s a role someone plays when clarity is needed. Some people make sense for a season, and some of us are professionals and hobbyists.
You might be a sensemaker if you...
- Translate between teams
- Fix structural issues no one else sees
- Clock patterns others don’t
- Care deeply about clarity and inclusion
- Question what’s next
- Maintain systems that prevent chaos
- Document what others skip
This week at the club
Our discussion groups meet on video live every weekday, below is this week’s schedule. See full calendar.
2 PM ET The Beginner's Meeting
Hosted by Mike Creech
A friendly introduction to the Sensemakers Club designed to help new members feel comfortable and connected.
2 PM ET The Analog Leap
Hosted by Uday Gajendar
A fast-moving creative exploration of analog visual making, where we'll engage with paper and pen to unlock your creativity and embrace an experimentalist attitude.
2 PM ET Design Jam
Hosted by Holly Schroeder & Abby Covert
A hands-on design jam for members and leaders to collaboratively explore and shape the future of the Sensemakers Club through a working session focused on iteration and shared ownership.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Facilitation
Hosted by Shelby Bower & Alan Dooley
A vibrant group exploring the various perspectives and contexts of effective facilitation.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Money
Hosted by Tarryn Lambert & Sarah Rice
An open, nuanced discussion aimed at demystifying money, fostering connections, and promoting financial empowerment through shared experiences and insights.
What’s going on?
Week of June 8, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Last week the club held five sessions. Making Sense of Content + Design (June 1) explored how tool fluency shapes collaboration and whether AI-assisted workflows actually help or hinder content work. Mindfulness & Modeling (June 2) dug into the gap between knowing something intellectually and actually embodying it in practice. Knowledge Management & Governance Support (June 3) examined what makes governance systems trustworthy, sustainable, and actually used — including the crucial role of stewardship. Career Transitions (June 4) asked how knowledge workers can position themselves to manage the AI information backlog that companies are already generating — and grappled with why so many of those same companies failed to understand the value of those workers in the first place. Discernment: The Ultimate Information Architecture Skill (June 5) ran a choose-your-own-adventure scenario through a real IA challenge, using group decision-making to surface what good discernment looks like in high-stakes stakeholder situations.
Themes from last week:
- The Visibility Problem — Good Work That Makes Itself Invisible
- Discernment as a Practiced, Contextual Skill — Not a Rule
- The AI Reckoning Is Already Here — and It's Messy